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| Usually called Goes Ahead, this scout had several names - The First One, Goes First, The One Ahead, Comes Leading, Man-With-Fur-Belt, and Child of the Stars.
He played the same role in the Battle of the Little Bighorn as Hairy Moccasin and Whiteman Runs Him, starting out with Custer, then going to the ridge top and becoming involved in the hilltop fight. With the other two, he made contact with Gibbon, then returned to the Agency. He died on May 31, 1919, and was buried at the Little Bighorn Battlefield Cemetery. His widow, Pretty Shield, who was a source of information for historians on the battle, lived until 1944. She was 92 when she died on April 30 of that year. She was interred next to her husband in the Battlefield cemetery. |
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